Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1887-07-22
A Brave Girls LIVING Tomb.
SHE is SAVED FROM BEING BURIED
ALIVE By AN AGED NEGRO. WHO
CUTS HER WITH A RAZOR.

/ Bait cor. y. Y. Morning Journal.
Burton Norwood, while fishing
the other day in Chesapeake Bay,
was saved from drowning by Lucy
Stoner, OF st. Mary's county. His
skiif capsized, and although he
could swim, he would have become
exhausted before reaching the
shore had it not been for brave
Lucy. She was bathing in little
cjve near the shore. She saw the
skifl go oyer and the man strike
ont boldly for his life. Unmindful
OF her appearance, she thought OF
nothing else bat saving the life Of
a fellOw.human being. She reach
ed him Just as he was nearly cx-
hauSted, and brought him safely TO
shore.
Lucy StOner is the bravest girl
on the western shore of Maryland.
This was the fourth life she had
saved from drowning. but her own
remarkably narrow escape from a
horrible death is the most interest
ing of her eventful career Of nine
teen years.
She was but sixteen when she
graduated from the academy in
Washington. She had studied
hard, and, when she returned home
after the commencement exercises.
she complained of continuous
pains in her head. About a month
later she was fourd, apparently
liteless, lying on her bed. Before
retiring the night previous she
complained of headache. Every
body pronounced her dead, even to
the gray.bearded doctor, the only
physician within sixty milesaround.
The female friends, however, who
prepared her body for burial re.
marked the lax condition Of the
muscles of her limbs. They were
not rigid as usual in death.
Two days aud nights the hand
some girl lay in her coffin in the
front room of the little cottage
Among those who looked upon the
dead girls face was an oil colored
gardener employed by the Turner
family, who owned The adjoining
place.
lie gazed long and earnestly at
the dead girls face, and then turn
ing to one of her brothers, who
was standing beside him he ex-
claimed, solemnly:
"Massa John, ifdis nigga knows
anything, Miss Lucy am not dead.
She am only in trance
But little heed, however, was
taken of the old negro's words. 1t
was, however, determined to place
the remains in the Turner family
vault, handsome marble mauso-
lenm, for few days until arrange
ments could be made TOR the inter-
ment in a Washington cemetery
The old colored man placed the
casket on the bier in the vault after
the funeral. When the mourners
had departed he returned TO the
vault and hastily unscrewcd the lid
of the coffin and also raised the
glass case, exposing the face Of the
Girl. He then locked the door of
the vault and returned to his farm
duties.
When all the lights in the Tur-
ner house were cut for the night
the negro went TO the stable, got a
dark lantern and stole silently IN
the direction Of the tomb, Once
inside the vault he took of the
entire lid of the coffin. Then TAX.
ing hold of the hands Of the girl he
rubbed them vigorously between
his own and repeated the action on
her feet. He rubbed until the
perspiration streamed down his
face, and then taking a razor from
his pocket he pushed the sleeve OF
the girls shroud back above the
flesby part Of the arm, near the
shoulder, and made deep inciSion.
In a moment lie uttered a glad
cry. Blood, warm blood, had be-
gun to flow from the wound. The
muscles twitched, the lips parted,
and moan was followed by the
opening of the eyelds.
The old man had expected this,
and quickly showed the sllde over
the face of the lantern so as not to
startle the maiden. He had bound
the bleeding arm with handker-
chief. Raising the girl in his arms
from the casket he hurried out Of
the vault and across to his house.
1t took but a moment to awaken
his wife, and, though terrified at
first, she was soon helping him to
bring the dead to life. In a few
days Lucy was restored to con-
sciousness, and to this day her arm
is marked by the ugly red scar in
llicted by Black Jim's razor.
From a Girls Composition.
BOYS is men that have not got as
big as their papas, and girls is
Young women that will be young
ladies by and by. %'' Man
was made before woman. When
God looked at Adam he said to